What changed the racing world from polo hard hats to modern cushion lined, live savers?

The tragic death of Pete Snell, during a 1956 race, from head injury. And that is why helmets have a Snell rating, that establishes the effectiveness of the helmet in protecting your noggin.


Snell Standards significantly surpass those set by:
 the United States Department of Transportation,
the American National Standards Institute,
ASTM International and
the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's

The Snell Memorial Foundation is a non-profit, and doesn't make helmets, they only test them. Also, they are ISO certified on the calibration and testing accuracy.

Next years Amelia Island Concours will feature the cars of the celeb cowboys

Once again Bill Warner has come up with a little something new for his annual Amelia Island Concours D'Elegance. On March 15, 2015, the 20th such Amelia gathering will display, "the eclectic and eccentric cars customized and modified to promote America's movie and TV cowboys with the highly anticipated ‘Cars of the Cowboys' class." Warner says the class was inspired when at age 11 he met then cowboy movie star Lash LaRue and was given a ride in LaRue's Muntz Jet car (For those who don't remember, the vehicle was one of the many promotions of "Mad Man Muntz" who gained his greatest fame for his "Muntz TV" that mounted a large, magnifying screen a few inches outside of the small screens then offered on most TV sets.) Among the "cowboy cars" slated to be on display are those of Leo Carillo, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers and Dale Robertson

  https://go.madmimi.com/redirects/1412115450-8b6b608f146f8e8386f15b2de38ee9a7-e2f6b47?pa=25390943533

Uber has inspired other entrepreneurs to find the business opportunities that have slipped between the cracks, like cargo shipping of small items

To solve the inefficiency and fragmentation of local trucking industry. Simply, we connect shippers with qualified carriers who have unutilized capacity on their trucks.

Introducing transparency and real-time efficiency into the market, while enabling local carriers to turn their capacity into meaningful business.

https://www.cargomatic.com/

With a nod to the fact that Sherpa Ventures founder Shervin Pishevar was also an early backer of the car-ordering mobile app Uber Technologies Inc., Cargomatic is billing itself as “Uber for local trucking.” It offers mobile and desktop apps to single-rig and other small trucking companies to help them run their business and drum up new orders.

Shippers–from retail stores to an office about to move–can also order the logistics services they need online or via the company’s Android apps.

Mr. Pishevar said he backed Cargomatic because of the founding team’s long history building successful tech startups and its domain expertise in logistics. He also believes trucking is a highly fragmented market that can benefit significantly from a “unifying” force and mobile app like Cargomatic.

A “Silicon Beach” business, Cargomatic employs 20 full-time in Venice, Calif.

Cargomatic makes money by charging a small fee to both the carrier and the shippers. Cargomatic negotiates prices with each side, and fees amount to as much as 20% of a total transaction, a figure Mr. Kessler says is an industry standard for small carriers and local trucking.

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/06/24/cargomatic-raises-2-6m-to-make-shipping-freight-easy-as-hailing-a-ride/

Motor Trend Classic slips out of the grave for an online only issue, but didn't bother telling us subscribers that they shafted when they killed off the print issues.

good article and photo gallery of the cars in the Smithsonian

but what pisses me off in addition to the Motor Trend company killing the magazine off, http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/01/motor-trend-classic-is-killed-off-again.html  that I really liked, is that not only did they kill it twice, but it's been about a year and they still haven't fixed their website so it doesn't lead people to think they still make it and you can subscribe to it.

http://www.motortrend.com/classic_cars/mtcflipbook/

the oldest motor racing trophy, is the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy

The Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy was first awarded in 1905. The winner of that race was John Napier driving an 18hp Arrol-Johnston in a race over four laps of a fearsome 52-mile open road loop around the Isle of Man. His average speed was 34mph.

In 1930 the RAC began awarding the Seagrave Trophy on the basis of merit, rather than annually, to the British national who has displayed a ‘spirit of adventure’ in keeping with that of Segrave himself – whether on land, sea or air.

Found on http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/

things I didn't know about Volvo, but thanks to CarCrushing.com, I do now

Company founders created Volvo as a separate company within Swedish ball bearing manufacturer SKF in 1915, but wouldn’t begin building cars for another 12-years. In Latin, Volvo translates to “I roll,” which totally makes sense in the context of a ball bearing manufacturer.

the first symbol Volvo adopted was the one we now know as "male" but was formerly known as Iron.

Also, they were the first to establish a factory in North America, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1958. Like Volvo’s home country of Sweden, Canada is a very cold place with lots of snow. Volvo became known for building cars that performed in well colder climates, the tax incentive offered by Nova Scotia helped too.

Volvo made the 3 point seatbelt, but in order to serve mankind as it is inherently intended to do, Volvo did not hold the patent, but instead shared the development with all car makers, and it's one of the most significant safety innovations in auto history.

Volvo has made the car (P1800) with the most mileage, which had a good bit of publicity in the last couple years: http://www.autoblog.com/2013/09/18/irv-gordons-volvo-p1800-has-hit-3-million-miles/

the Volvo Caresto T6 was a one off prototype/concept that is so incredible Hot Rod Magazine named it the Hot Rod of the Year, 2004

image from http://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/26/ebay-find-of-the-day-caresto-t6-roadster-2004-hot-rod-of-the-y/#continued

Just a few cool things from http://www.carcrushing.com/13-things-didnt-know-volvo/

car leather variety and info

Nappa leather is a kind of full-grain leather. It was first made by Emanuel Manasse in the year 1875. Manasse worked for a tanning company in Napa, California. That is how the leather gets its name. As stated previously, Nappa leather is a full-grain leather. The leather is made from kid, lamb or sheep skin, and it is 'unsplit'. The tanning process for this leather makes us of artificial tannins such as aluminum sulfate, chromium sulfate and other such salts. Nappa leather is typically dyed so as to obtain various colors.  http://www.buzzle.com/articles/all-about-nappa-leather.html

Connelly LeatherLtd is a British company supplying highly finished leather primarily to car manufacturers, founded in 1878. The term is also used to describe the particular brand of leather itself, when fitted in a car interior. Connolly leather gained such prominence in the world of luxury travel including private jets and yachts, that it was selected for such high profile projects as Concorde and the luxury liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, as well as the benches in Britain's Houses of Parliament together with many other parliaments around the world. http://www.wikipedia.org/

Alcantara a tradename given to a composite material used to cover surfaces and forms in a variety of applications. It can be described as an artificial substitute for suede leather. The material was developed in the early 1970s, produced by combining an advanced spinning process (producing very low denier bi-component "islands in the sea" fibre) and chemical and textile production processes (needle punching, buffing, impregnation, extraction, finishing, dyeing, etc.) http://www.wikipedia.org/

Laguna Leather is from Swedish company Elmo Leather, who is known for sourcing its leather exclusively from Scandinavian cows, where barbed-wire is not used on ranches. Interesting historic note about the Swedish company with a factory in Germany: The company supplies the cutting plant in Germany with whole hides from Elmo Leather's plant in Sweden, where it's cut, packed, and transported to the car manufacturer or subcontractor for sewing.
 * Wismar is a port town on the southern Baltic coast of Germany, where in the late middle ages it was an important Hanseatic town. Following the 30-year war, Wismar became Swedish territory via the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and between 1653-1802 was the seat of the Superior Court for Sweden's German occupation and the Wismar Tribunal. Wismar was leased to Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1803 and Sweden relinquished its rights on the town 100 years later. http://www.leathermag.com/features/featureelmo-start-cutting-automotive-leather/

The automotive industry sees an opportunity to reduce its costs by buying ready-cut leather directly from the supplier for its car upholstery, instead of whole hides which, via other subcontractors, are cut and sewed together to become finished upholstery items.

Challenger Hellcat info

Gets to dealerships in November

Only about 2/3rds of dealerships will get 1 in the 1st round. Not some, 1. For example, of all the dealerships in California, there will be only 89 Hellcat Challengers, in the initial 2 month dispensing of the first production run. No one knows what the factory is going to do after that, but you can guess they'll see what they can do about cost ($59,999.00 to start) and profit.

So far, one has been sold for $125,000 in New York... expect all other dealerships to auction off their first car for similar profit, as selling Vipers is a big loss for dealerships. 10-20 thousand loss per Viper

The EPA gave it the estimated highway fuel use of 22mpg

With stock factory tires, it had a 11.2 second 1/4 mile, at 125 mph

With drag slicks, it had a 10.8 @126mph

what happened to Auburn, Cord, Peerless,Franklin and dozens of other defunct car companies? Their names and trademarks were used for licensing toys

When E.L. Cord decided to get out of the car business in August 1937 and take up real estate in California, he sold his stake of the Cord Corporation – the holding company that controlled Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg and Checker automobiles, along with American Airways, Stinson Aircraft, and several other companies – to a group of investors operating as the Aviation and Transportation Corporation. ATCO, in turn, shut down car manufacture at Auburn, Cord, and Duesenberg and sold the Auburn and Cord assets, including the rights to the Auburn and Cord names, to Dallas Winslow, a businessman who had become rich and famous by buying up the assets of other, smaller defunct automobile companies including Flint, Briscoe, Stearns-Knight, Peerless, Franklin, Wills St. Clair, Haynes, and dozens more. He got all but the tooling and dies, which Norman DeVaux bought and in turn marketed to Hupp and Graham.

Winslow apparently had little interest in the Cord and Auburn names and trademarks. Instead, he spent the next 20 years marketing, selling, and in some cases reproducing parts for those cars. Pray, on the other hand, saw the potential in the defunct marques, and so approached Winslow in 1960 to inquire about what Winslow had been calling the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. On a shop teacher’s salary, he managed to put together the $75,000 deal and then move 350 tons of parts and the operations of the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company to a former pickle factory in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

Interestingly enough, Pray told his biographer, Josh Malks, that he later discovered that neither the Cord nor Auburn names were registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Winslow had let them expire while he owned the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company. Pray ended up spending $500 each to re-register the names – Cord in 1963 and Auburn in 1966. “If I’d known that all I had to do was spend $1,000, I’d have had me the Cord and Auburn names and wouldn’t have had to drag all that stuff down here.”

While Pray was happy enough to sell parts to Auburn and Cord collectors and restorers, he really wanted to put the Cord and Auburn automobiles back into production, something he needed both names to do. In August 1964 he succeeded with the former, basing a downsized (8/10-scale, as its name would later declare), Buehrig-designed, Royalite-bodied version of the Cord 810 on a custom chassis using a Corvair drivetrain under the hood to provide front-wheel drive. Production of what would prove to be one of the world’s first continuation cars stalled after about 100 were built and after Pray left the Cord Automobile Company, but he somehow retained the Cord name through the ordeal.

Though he never again tried to resurrect the Cord name, Pray did make sure to keep the trademarks registered afterward, both to continue selling Cord-branded reproduction parts and to license the Cord name to other companies like Mattel and Hallmark. While Pray, through the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Company, sold off the Auburn name and trademark in 2005 for $500,000, he held on to the Cord trademarks until his death in 2011, and now his family has decided to part with them.

found on http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2014/09/19/rights-to-the-cord-name-and-trademark-come-up-for-sale/

Dodge designers have added some easter eggs (fun surprises you'll like) to the new Challenger, Charger, Viper, and Jeeps

The idea began with a little image of the original 1941 Willys Jeep on the frame of the 2011 Wrangler windshield. The image simultaneously appealed to owners who noticed it, and gave them a reason to buy original Chrysler parts if they needed a replacement. Anybody can make a spare part, but only Chrysler has the right to reproduce the image of the ’41 Willys for sale.

the Jeep stuff I posted in February http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-cute-little-jeep-touches-on.html

the owners manual canvas bag isn't an easter egg, but it's pretty damn cool anyway! So is the tool kit

On the 2014 and 15 Cherokee, in the center of the windshield

A map of the Hell's Revenge off-road course is hidden under the passenger front seat in the Cherokee 

in the 2014 Compass

http://www.freep.com/article/20140417/COL14/304170014/chrysler-design-phelan

The new 2014 Jeep Cherokee SUV is an Easter egg hunt on wheels. Among other goodies, the parking-assist video display shows the Cherokee driving past a row of Willys.

For SRT vehicles, Viper was the first to have specific SRT-related “Easter Eggs.” Those came in the form of track maps of Laguna Seca and the Nurburgring added to the interior of the supercar. http://www.drivesrt.com/news/2014/05/srt-vehicles-easter-eggs.html

One of the most vivid “Easter Eggs” in the SRT Viper is the Stryker logo that lights up on the tachometer when the rev limit is reached. Additional screen- and electronics-related “Easter Eggs” that can be programmed through software have found their way into SRT vehicles in recent years. Through electronics, “Easter Eggs” have the capacity to evolve over the lifetime of vehicle ownership. The reception to “Easter Eggs” on SRT vehicles has been very positive from both customers and automotive analysts. Media members enjoy the challenge of finding “Easter Eggs” as they test drive and review vehicles, and SRT vehicle owners revisit childhood memories of taking part in an actual Easter egg hunts.

Supposedly the above was the first giveaway of the Hellcat 707 horsepower ....

scanning the pic for some additional hidden treasures,  the first thing that grabbed attention was the individual climate control temperatures, with 68 being the year when Carl Cameron designed the original Challenger.

 http://www.autoevolution.com/news/go-stalk-dodge-s-srt-the-2015-challenger-hellcat-is-an-easter-egg-83429.html#

more info http://blog.chryslerllc.com/entry/2255/chryslers_easter_egg_hunt

the Toyota logo... very clever

Found on http://diply.com/trendyjoe/30-famous-logos-that-have-a-hidden-message/49939/

Get ready for a shocking cool story... 2 AMC Spirits raced the 1979 24 hours of Nürburgring with two Penske prepared Eagle Spirits in 1979

And they didn’t just race. They finished 1-2 in class, but there’s a lot more to the story. The drivers — which included IndyCar racer Lyn St. James and James Brolin — came to Nürburgring without ever having driven the track. So, they recruited a local to show them around the place. This local turned out to be a WWII veteran named Heinz who lost his right arm while serving as the captain in a Panzer tank.

Skip the first minute


Found on http://www.carcrushing.com/10-things-didnt-know-amc/

Not that you care about Pacers... but this is pretty odd

The passenger side door was 4 inches longer than the drivers side.  Made getting in and out of the back seat a bit easier.. but why not make the divers side door the same length?

Found on http://www.carcrushing.com/10-things-didnt-know-amc/

Johnson's Flying Service (if you've watched Planes 2, you might like to read this) invented the Smoke Jumpers in 1940

photo by Michael Gallacher of the Missoulian newspaper http://missoulian.com/news/local/wwii-era-bomber-retrofitted-for-firefighting-lands-at-missoula-museum/article_d0b607da-f3c0-11e0-8c43-001cc4c002e0.html

The proud museum's newest addition, a retrofitted, single-engine World War II torpedo bomber, is one that pilots flew and mechanics got in the air and kept there for Johnson Flying Service in the 1960s and '70s.

 The  aircraft that was one of six Grumman TBM Avengers closed out of the Missoula-based flying service in 1974 and sold to Forest Protection Limited in New Brunswick, and spent most of the last four decades spraying Canadian forests for bugs and dropping retardant on forest fires. A-13 first came to Johnson's in 1964 as a replacement slurry bomber http://missoulian.com/news/local/wwii-era-bomber-retrofitted-for-firefighting-lands-at-missoula-museum/article_d0b607da-f3c0-11e0-8c43-001cc4c002e0.html

in the movies Planes and Planes 2, Skipper is a Corsair... not an Avenger, but similar in that they were both warbirds... and I find it cool that they used Avengers as fire patrol airplanes



1917 - At the age of 24, Missoula resident Bob Johnson enlists in the army and is sent to Camp Lewis, Washington. Johnson is discharged less than a year later. Johnson goes into business for himself, opening an automotive service station

1920's 1923 - Missoula’s first landing strip is laid out in May. The field is located near the base of Mount Sentinel, roughly between what is now the University of Montana and South Avenue 1926 - Bob Johnson purchases a Swallow bi-plane for $2500 and continues his flying lessons with instructor Nick Mamer, believed to be the first pilot to ever fly over Glacier National Park. Bob Johnson decides to start Johnson Flying Service to teach others how to fly

 1927 - Bob Johnson, in an interview with a University of Montana journalism student, says he believes airplanes will eventually make regular stops in Missoula. Decades later, that same journalism student, who thought Johnson was crazy for making such an incredible statement, would eventually fly out of Missoula International Airport aboard a large passenger airliner; a group of men meet at the Palace Hotel to discuss Missoula's future in aviation. Missoula, it was felt, needed an airport to succeed. City businessman Harry O. Bell was elected president of the Missoula chapter of the National Aeronautic Association. Their first act was to secure an airmail route to Butte and Salt Lake City; Walter Beck secures a 60-day option on eighty acres of land just east of the Missoula County Fairgrounds. The County officially purchases the 80 acres of land, as well as an adjacent strip to construct an east-west runway. Total cost was $5000. A northwest-southeast runway was later built.

1934 - Northwest Airways inaugurates regular mail and passenger service to Missoula at the Garden City Airport

1938 - President Roosevelt authorizes W.P.A. funds for the construction of Missoula’s third airport. The Missoula County Airport Board purchases 1300 acres of land seven miles west of Missoula adjacent to Highway 10 West as the site for a new airport. Since the Forest Service needed access to an airport, and Missoula County needed heavy equipment to build the new airport, a deal was struck between the two parties. The airport board gave the Forest Service a perpetual easement at the airport site, while the Forest Service granted the use of their equipment for construction. The agreement eventually led to Missoula becoming a major center for aerial firefighting and research. The new airport would feature four runways each a mile or more in length, capable of accommodating any airplane in service at the time. Total estimated cost, including the land, for the new Missoula County Airport: $1.5-$2 million

1940 - July 12, Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley become the first firefighters to parachute from a Johnson Flying Service airplane to extinguish a fire in the Pacific Northwest Region. On that day, the legendary Smokejumper program was born

1952 - Congress authorizes $700,000 to construct a new aerial fire depot west of Missoula near the new airport; Red Skies of Montana is released in theaters. The film portrays the dangerous lives of Smokejumpers who battle fires in the Pacific Northwest by parachuting into the flames below

1980 - Bob Johnson passes away. "When Bob Johnson was just getting started flying in 1923, aviation and airplanes were considered absolutely a thing for fools, daredevils and irresponsible playboys," said aviation historian Steve Smith of Missoula, whose book Fly the Biggest Piece Back chronicles the history of Johnson Flying Service. Johnson had accumulated over 17,000 hours during his flying career

Info from http://www.flymissoula.com/About_Us/Airport_History

A good thing to read is "What it means to be a Smoke Jumper" from the only survivor of the 1949 disaster. http://www.nifc.gov/safety/mann_gulch/memorial/documents/What_it_Means_to_be_a_Smokejumper_by_Robert_Sallee_1993.pdf

One of the first aerial fire patrol pilots in the northwest was Nick Mamer, a legendary pilot, who had served with the U.S. Air Service during WW I, and later settled in Spokane, establishing the Mamer Flying Service. He taught Bob Johnson of the Johnson Flying Service of Missoula how to fly.

During the time that he flew aerial fire patrols he never experienced a forced landing.  During the period 1925-1935 Forest Inspector Howard R. Flint and Nick Mamer were inseparably connected with the pioneering of aerial activities in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region. Then while flying as a chief pilot for Northwest Airlines on a Lockheed Super Electra during a flight from Seattle to Minneapolis, parts of the tail section were torn from the aircraft about 15 miles northeast of Bozeman, Montana and the plane went into a dive.

Mamer, the copilot and eight passengers died instantly. Later, an investigation revealed that the tail structure had failed on the new design from what is known as "natural resonance, or period of vibration". So ended the life of one of the very first aerial fire patrol pilots in the northwest, a pilot who at one time was known as "Mr. Spokane Aviation".  http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/smokejumpers/missoula/History/General/

Maiden Detroit... clever name, with an interesting and notable story

See, they were racing boats before they were making airplanes, and with the customary way of calling ships and planes in the female vernacular, but having to come up with a new way of doing that since Gar Wood had already named his racing boat Miss Detroit, it was only possible to call the Stout Metal Aeroplane Co airplane with a Liberty Engine airplanes "Maiden" as it was a clever pun for the city it was manufactured in as well as a female term.

Photo and info from http://home.earthlink.net/~ralphcooper/pimagb17.htm

A good story about the pioneers of airplanes involving the Maiden Detroit:
 It was a great day when we first took the plane out to Selfridge for its trial flights. The new field al Ford's was not ready yet. It was early spring and ice was still on the lake. Walter Lees was the test pilot. He took off against a light wind and headed out across the lake. Then, something happened. A couple of dips and down he came, landing on the ice which was fortunately thick enough to hold.
     It took us ten minutes to run out to where the ship stood on the ice and find what was the matter. Walter was furious.
     The windshield had blown in against his control wheel and he had to push the celluloid back in place with his foot before he could free the controls to land. Windshields, from then on, were made much stronger.
     A few days later he took off again---this time over land.
     Frost in the carburetor brought him down once more---in a swamp! All was safe, but the ship had to be taken apart to get it out on dry land again.

Ford later bought the Stout Metal Aeroplane company, and evolved the above into Tri Motor airplanes  http://www.nifc.gov/safety/mann_gulch/organization/equipment/docs/Evergreen_Ford_Tri_Motor_%20Aircraft_and_Crew_Information.pdf

Charger Hellcat and Challenger Hellcat

If the Charger Hellcat goes on sale as promised in the 1st 1/4 of 2015, it will be the most powerful sedan for sale on the market. Stomping BMW (540hp) Mercedes E63 AMG (550hp)

Zero to 60 = 3.7 seconds.

Source, Autoweek Sept 1st issue 2014

Of all the powerful cars available for purchase in the USA, the Hellcat Challenger is #2, just a bit more than #3 Lamborghini Aventador and just a bit less than #1 Ferrari F12

the Switch Pitch Super Turbine 300 and 400

The vanes in the torque converter are adjustable with the flip of a 12volt switch.

These have a special fluid pump, input shaft and torque converter. When the trans is in "normal", low stall mode, the pump and vanes work like a typical, stock converter with a 1800rpm stall. When 12 volts is applied to the pumps servo, some of the fluid is redirected through a hole in the center of the trans input shaft, into the converter. The vanes in the torque converter are mounted on pivots with a cam type level attached to each vane. The fluid acts with another servo in the converter to change the pitch of the vanes, increasing the stall speed to 2200rpm. You basically have a converter with a street stall or a race stall,with the flip of a switch!
http://forums.off-road.com/jeep-short-wheelbase/186851-50-ot-switch-pitch-super-turbine-400-trans.html

A variable-pitch stator transmission called Switch-Pitch by Buick and Variable Vane by Olds. 1964-1967. The stator blades moved from high to low position by an electrical solenoid and a stator valve, controlled by a switch on the throttle linkage. At light to medium throttle, the stator blades were at 32°, providing a torque multiplication of 1.8:1 and a converter stall speed of approximately 1800 rpm. At ⅔ to full throttle, the blades switched to the 51° high position, giving torque multiplication of 2.45:1 and a stall speed of approximately 2300 rpm. The blades were also set to the high position at idle to limit creep when stopped in Drive. The variable-pitch stator was eliminated after 1967. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Turbine_300

the 400 was made from 1965 -67. http://www.442.com/oldsfaq/oftsp.htm

VW cars named for winds

the Golf, Passat, Scirocco, Bora, Vento, and Eos

from comments in the Car and Driver Sept issue

Car and Driver magazine puts out great infographics every month

Ford’s F-series was, as usual, the bestselling vehicle in the U.S. in 2013. If Alan Mulally had received his compensation package in F-150s, it would have required a couple of haulers a week to drop off all 885 at his doorstep. Here are our CEOs’ pay expressed in number of their bestselling vehicles.

Most entry-level hourly employees at automobile-manufacturing facilities in the United States make about $16 per hour, not including benefits. Assuming those workers have a basic year of fifty 40-hour weeks, Mulally made as much as 725 factory workers.

The median household income in the U.S. is $43,585, according to the latest data from Gallup. In 2013, TRW’s CEO John Plant made that much in about 21 hours. Over the course of the year, he made 409 times the median American household income.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/money-makers-putting-auto-industry-ceo-pay-in-perspective-infographic/

1969 Camaro option code W84: Additional Fuel

because the far export destinations of the Camaros might not have good fuel, they could be sent with a full tank.

For a full list of the Camaro Option Codes: http://www.nastyz28.com/faq/rpo-list.html

I learned about it in an article in Muscle Car Review Sept 2014 featuring Anthony Serpa's 1969 Camaro... which is only online at http://www.grundy.com/newsletter/newsletter071709_000.asp